The Lobster offers brilliant satire of the corrupted expectations of human...
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos burst onto the International film scene in 2009 with the disturbing, Oscar-nominated family drama Dogtooth. There was no way it...
Paul Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife gives actors space; Florida premiere with...
All that is great about actors who take up directing is on full display in Wildlife, the directorial debut of Paul Dano, based on...
Elena Anaya talks about giving performance of a lifetime in They...
In her most recent role as the lead in They Are All Dead (Todos están muertos), which had its U.S. premiere at Miami Dade College's...
Whit Stillman and I reconsider my negative review of ‘Damsels In...
In the second part of my conversation with filmmaker Whit Stillman (this is continued from: A cup of coffee in which director Whit Stillman and I...
A cup of coffee in which director Whit Stillman and I...
During the couple of times I met with film director Whit Stillman at this past Miami International Film Festival, something has bothered me about how...
Hou Hsiao-hsien on his intuitive filmmaking and The Assassin; more in...
Anyone familiar with the films of acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien may be surprised that his new film is a martial arts movie. However, the...
Watch the Sundance-selected, Miami-made short “The Sun Like a Big Dark...
It's been a while since I first saw the short film "El sol como un gran animal oscuro" or "The Sun Like a Big...
Hotel Mumbai is difficult entertainment to stomach
It’s hard to say if I was entertained by Hotel Mumbai, a movie focused on four horrific days where a group of well-armed terrorists...
Billy Croben on the inspiration of child actors in Screwball and...
In my recent Miami New Times review of the new documentary Screwball, I praised the filmmakers’ decision to incorporate children in their reenactments of...
Reflecting on 2015, Part 4 – Best Films according to Hans
Mid-year, I teased my working lists of The best films of 2015 … so far. It's finalized. Four films had their premieres at either Miami Dade College's Miami...